Navy’s new carrier so large the crew need an app to find their way about (Royal Navy)

London Evening Standard ^ | 14 January 2014

[Theoria]

'Crew members are shortly to be given a special app for their mobile phones to help them navigate around the ship. '

Golly, what could go wrong. Malware on a battleship, sounds fun.

[rlmorel]

"...Crew members are shortly to be given a special app for their mobile phones to help them navigate around the ship..."

[Chode]

100%!!!

[smokingfrog]

Running naked through the ship?

Highly irregular, old chap!

[Red Steel]

Brits get back to big deck carriers.

[Kozak]

LOL. It’s less then 2/3rds the size of a US CVN. How do our sailors manage without an app?

[2ndDivisionVet]

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is nearly twice as big, displacement-wise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford_(CVN-78)

[Jet Jaguar]

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Gene Eric]

Interesting image.

[Vendome]

We’ll have to help them eventually...

[rlmorel]

I am embarrassed for the Brits.

[meatloaf]

Interesting link to the Soviet super carrier that was scrapped at 20% completion in the nineties. The design may be the basis for future Chinese carriers.

http://tiananmenstremendousachievements.wordpress.com/tag/nuclear-aircraft-carrier/

[mountn man]

Awwwwww...look at the cute little boat.

Whats it gonna be when it grows up?

[BigCinBigD]

“Whats it gonna be when it grows up?”

Reef?

[867V309]

Two superstructures.  Two superstructures.

But I repeat myself.

[Slings and Arrows]

Maybe I’m missing something here, but doesn’t the lack of an angled flight deck mean that the carrier can’t simultaneously launch and land aircraft?

[octex]

Thanks to you, sukhoi-30mki, for all of your postings about military matters.

As an 18 y/o, I was assigned to the USS FDR (CVA-42) in the V-2 Catapults Div. The ship (sister to the Midway and Coral Sea) was over 900 ft. It was designed for a crew of around 3800-4000, but with our air squadrons onboard we were over 5000. ..........The Brits intend to run a similarly sized carrier with only about 700 crew???

I know it was a WW II carrier that was operating in the early ‘60s with a high efficiency rating, and yes we carried nukes.

I joined the ship when in the shipyard for updating, so learned my way around the ship pretty quickly. I can’t even wrap my head around the idea that the Brits think they have to provide cell phone apps to help the twits find their way around their own ship!!!!

[Little Pig]

One’s for driving the ship, and one’s for handling all the aircraft, so neither team steps on the others’ toes (which is apparently a problem on single-tower ships).